The European Commission (EC) launched the Catching-up Regions (CuR) Initiative in April 2016, which offered tailored technical support to selected regions in Poland provided by the World Bank. Under the third round of the CuR (CuR3), the Kujawsko-Pomorskie...
Vea más +The European Commission (EC) launched the Catching-up Regions (CuR) Initiative in April 2016, which offered tailored technical support to selected regions in Poland provided by the World Bank. Under the third round of the CuR (CuR3), the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Marshal Office (KPMO) identified the lack of integrated spatial planning for the Wloclawek Functional Urban Area (WFUA) as a developmental bottleneck affecting the competitiveness of the whole region. This report summarizes the process, approach, key outputs, findings and recommendations from the World Bank technical assistance to the KPMO and the municipalities within the WFUA, under the spatial planning component of the CuR3. The design of the component adopted a similar approach, scaling up from the successful CuR2 activity for the Rzeszów Functional Urban Area in the Podkarpackie Region, and customized to the specific circumstance of the WFUA. The main objective of the engagement is to assist the Włocławek Urban Functional Area towards formulating a common Concept for Spatial Development which will determine the future planning activities and development direction of the eight municipalities forming the WFUA.Over the course of a year, the Bank team engaged local stakeholders through a series of consultations to better understand their development conditions and the local context, sought out their specific capacity-building needs around spatial planning, as well as encouraged their interests to work together toward a common development vision for the WFUA. Building on the knowledge, experience and available tools of the local stakeholders, the Bank team also conducted a spatial analysis to assist with identifying both constraints and opportunities for development in the WFUA that will inform the eventual formulation of a Concept of Spatial Development for the WFUA.The advisory support provided by the World Bank aims at empowering stakeholders to take decisions on the design and implementation of solutions to address the developmental bottlenecks identified. While the Bank team takes the lead on proposing different methodologies, conducting option analyses, and highlighting the pros and cons of given solutions based on experience from other places, the ultimate decision-making, and realization of solutions on the ground still resides with the Polish stakeholders.
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